No. 5,264 in Russian
обыграть
"Обыграть" means "to outplay, win against, or beat (in a game or competition)."
In a sentence
Я хочу обыграть соперника в шахматы.
I want to defeat my opponent in chess.
Here 'обыграть' is used to mean 'to outplay' or 'defeat' in the context of a competition or game.
Давайте обыграем эту ситуацию в спектакле.
Let's play out this situation in the play.
In this sentence, 'обыграть' means 'to depict' or 'perform in an artistic way', referring to interpreting something creatively in a dramatization.
Автор обыграл тему дружбы в своём рассказе.
The author elaborated the theme of friendship in his story.
Here, 'обыграть' describes the act of creatively expressing or elaborating on a theme within a literary or artistic context.
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